Patents by Inventor Shoutarou Hashimoto

Shoutarou Hashimoto has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20190036471
    Abstract: A motor controller includes: a primary frequency control unit that generates a primary frequency command value based on current information of an induction motor and limits the primary frequency command value based on a maximum primary frequency; a rotation speed estimating unit that estimates a slip frequency based on the current information of the induction motor and estimates a rotation speed based on the estimated slip frequency estimation value and the primary frequency command value; a proximity switch that outputs an ON signal or OFF signal when a portion of a rotating body of the induction motor is in proximity or not in proximity; a rotation speed computing unit that computes a rotation speed based on the ON signal and the OFF signal; and a maximum primary frequency computing unit that computes the maximum primary frequency based on the rotation speed computation value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Shoutarou HASHIMOTO, Yuuki MORITA
  • Publication number: 20180307202
    Abstract: A control system of a machine tool includes an analysis device, the analysis device includes acquisition portions which acquire chronological control data when a work is machined and which acquire spatial machined surface measurement data after the machining of the work, a storage portion which stores the control data and the machined surface measurement data, a data-associating processing portion which associates the control data and the machined surface measurement data with each other in two machining directions, a machined surface failure detection portion which detects a failure on the machined surface of the work and a location thereof based on the machined surface measurement data in the two machining directions and an identification portion which identifies a drive axis that causes the failure from the detected failure and the machining direction of the control data corresponding to the detected failure location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Satoshi Ikai, Shoutarou Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20180299861
    Abstract: A control system of a machine tool includes an analysis device, the analysis device includes acquisition portions which acquire chronological speed control data when a work is machined and which acquire spatial machined surface measurement data after the machining of the work, a data-associating processing portion which associates the speed control data and the machined surface measurement data with each other, a machined surface failure detection portion which detects a failure depth of a failure location on the machined surface of the work and an identification portion which identifies the control data of the failure location corresponding to the machined surface measurement data of the failure location so as to identify a failure depth corresponding to the control data of the failure location and the numerical control device corrects the control data based on the control data of the failure location and the corresponding failure depth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: Satoshi IKAI, Shoutarou HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 10048672
    Abstract: To provide a motor control device that prevents from becoming excessive correction, upon adding a backlash correction amount to a position command for a motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoutarou Hashimoto, Tadashi Okita, Yuuki Morita
  • Patent number: 10012974
    Abstract: A motor control system which makes a tool motor and a workpiece motor rotate in synchronization in a machine tool equipped with a tool motor, a workpiece motor, and a tool shaft movement motor which drives a linear shaft to change an intershaft distance between the tool shaft and the workpiece shaft, wherein when the power outage detector detects a power outage of the power supply during synchronous rotation of the tool motor and the workpiece motor, the operation of the forced deceleration circuit for causing forced deceleration of either one of the tool motor and workpiece motor is made to be delayed by a predetermined time and during that time the tool shaft movement motor is used to drive the linear shaft and separate the tool and workpiece as a retraction operation to thereby prevent damage to the tool and the workpiece at the time of a power outage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoutarou Hashimoto, Tadashi Okita
  • Patent number: 9958857
    Abstract: To provide a motor control device, motor control method, and non-transitory computer readable medium recording a motor control program, which add a backlash correction amount to a position command for a motor at the appropriate timing. Included are a first position detection part that detects a first position which is a position of a movable part; a second position detection part that detects a second position which is a position of a driven part; a positional error calculation part that calculates positional error, which is deviation between a converted first position detected value and a second position detected value; and a backlash correction part that adds a backlash correction amount when the absolute value for the variation of the positional error since reversal of a position command was detected exceeds the predetermined reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoutarou Hashimoto, Tadashi Okita, Yuuki Morita
  • Publication number: 20180095446
    Abstract: To provide a motor control device that prevents from becoming excessive correction, upon adding a backlash correction amount to a position command for a motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Shoutarou HASHIMOTO, Tadashi OKITA, Yuuki MORITA
  • Patent number: 9887660
    Abstract: A motor control device of the present invention is a control device for a motor for driving a feed shaft of a machine tool, and includes: a power outage detector for detecting a power outage of a power source for supplying power to drive the motor; a forcible decelerator for forcibly decelerating the motor in response to a torque command when a power outage is detected; a DC link voltage monitor for monitoring a DC link voltage applied to an amplifier for driving the motor; a determination unit for determining whether the value of the DC link voltage is greater than a first threshold, or whether the change ratio of the DC link voltage is greater than a second threshold; and, a torque command limiter for limiting the torque command to a predetermined torque command limiting value, in accordance with the result of determination at the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoutarou Hashimoto, Tadashi Okita
  • Publication number: 20170344029
    Abstract: Included are a first position detection part that detects a first position which is the position of a movable part; a second position detection part that detects a second position which is the position of a driven part; a positional error calculation part that calculates positional error, which is deviation between a converted first position detection value and a second position detection value; and a positional error variation calculation part that calculates an absolute value for variation of positional error since reversal of a position command was detected, in which addition of a backlash correction amount is started if the absolute value for the variation of the positional error exceeds a first reference value, and addition of a backlash acceleration amount is started if the absolute value of variation of the positional error exceeds a second reference value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Shoutarou HASHIMOTO, Tadashi OKITA, Yuuki MORITA
  • Publication number: 20170300033
    Abstract: To provide a motor control device, motor control method, and non-transitory computer readable medium recording a motor control program, which add a backlash correction amount to a position command for a motor at the appropriate timing. Included are a first position detection part that detects a first position which is a position of a movable part; a second position detection part that detects a second position which is a position of a driven part; a positional error calculation part that calculates positional error, which is deviation between a converted first position detected value and a second position detected value; and a backlash correction part that adds a backlash correction amount when the absolute value for the variation of the positional error since reversal of a position command was detected exceeds the predetermined reference value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: Shoutarou HASHIMOTO, Tadashi OKITA, Yuuki MORITA
  • Patent number: 9692348
    Abstract: A motor control device includes a load torque estimation unit configured to estimate a load torque applied to a motor, a torque comparison unit configured to compare the load torque with a reference torque, a time measurement unit configured to measure a time span during which the load torque is higher than the reference torque, a time comparison unit configured to compare the time span with a reference time, and a decision unit configured to decide that the motor is subjected to an excessive load when the time span exceeds the reference time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoutarou Hashimoto, Tadashi Okita
  • Patent number: 9377773
    Abstract: A motor controller is configured to judge whether or not the amount of displacement of a driven body after the direction of movement of the driven body is reversed, exceeds a predetermined threshold value, and whether or not the amount of displacement of a motor after the direction of movement of the motor is reversed, exceeds another predetermined threshold value. When the amount of displacement of the driven body exceeds the threshold value, or the amount of displacement of the motor exceeds a second threshold value, the correction of the commands to the motor is terminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoutarou Hashimoto, Tadashi Okita
  • Publication number: 20160134227
    Abstract: A motor control device includes a load torque estimation unit configured to estimate a load torque applied to a motor, a torque comparison unit configured to compare the load torque with a reference torque, a time measurement unit configured to measure a time span during which the load torque is higher than the reference torque, a time comparison unit configured to compare the time span with a reference time, and a decision unit configured to decide that the motor is subjected to an excessive load when the time span exceeds the reference time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Shoutarou Hashimoto, Tadashi Okita
  • Publication number: 20160028331
    Abstract: A motor control device of the present invention is a control device for a motor for driving a feed shaft of a machine tool, and includes: a power outage detector for detecting a power outage of a power source for supplying power to drive the motor; a forcible decelerator for forcibly decelerating the motor in response to a torque command when a power outage is detected; a DC link voltage monitor for monitoring a DC link voltage applied to an amplifier for driving the motor; a determination unit for determining whether the value of the DC link voltage is greater than a first threshold, or whether the change ratio of the DC link voltage is greater than a second threshold; and, a torque command limiter for limiting the torque command to a predetermined torque command limiting value, in accordance with the result of determination at the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Shoutarou Hashimoto, Tadashi Okita
  • Publication number: 20150355627
    Abstract: A motor control system which makes a tool motor and a workpiece motor rotate in synchronization in a machine tool equipped with a tool motor, a workpiece motor, and a tool shaft movement motor which drives a linear shaft to change an intershaft distance between the tool shaft and the workpiece shaft, wherein when the power outage detector detects a power outage of the power supply during synchronous rotation of the tool motor and the workpiece motor, the operation of the forced deceleration circuit for causing forced deceleration of either one of the tool motor and workpiece motor is made to be delayed by a predetermined time and during that time the tool shaft movement motor is used to drive the linear shaft and separate the tool and workpiece as a retraction operation to thereby prevent damage to the tool and the workpiece at the time of a power outage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Shoutarou HASHIMOTO, Tadashi OKITA
  • Publication number: 20150309500
    Abstract: A motor controller is configured to judge whether or not the amount of displacement of a driven body after the direction of movement of the driven body is reversed, exceeds a predetermined threshold value, and whether or not the amount of displacement of a motor after the direction of movement of the motor is reversed, exceeds another predetermined threshold value. When the amount of displacement of the driven body exceeds the threshold value, or the amount of displacement of the motor exceeds a second threshold value, the correction of the commands to the motor is terminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventors: Shoutarou HASHIMOTO, Tadashi OKITA
  • Publication number: 20150194921
    Abstract: A motor control device that controls an exciting current and a torque current separately from each other, and drives an induction machine includes: a first exciting current command generating unit that generates a first exciting current command in accordance with a speed and torque command; a second exciting current command generating unit that includes a magnetic flux control unit generating a second exciting current command by using a difference between a first exciting current command and a magnetic flux estimation value, and a magnetic flux estimating unit generating a magnetic flux estimation value from the second exciting current command, the second exciting current command generating unit outputting a second exciting current command; and a switching unit that selects one of a first exciting current command and a second exciting current command in accordance with a control mode or external information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Inventors: Shoutarou Hashimoto, Tadashi Okita